The right to be afraid
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 16, 2018
4 minutes
"He owned the gun legally and had a concealed carry permit."
That matters?
In an otherwise neutral and informative article, this reads like a bit of legal fetishism. Another human being is dead, oh so needlessly and pointlessly, thanks to a moment of lethally armed anger in a convenience store parking lot in Clearwater, Florida, last month. But the killer's weapon was bureaucratically correct: clean as a whistle.
This is more than merely irrelevant. There's something wrong here that our legal system is, apparently, incapable of addressing.
The July 19 death of Markeis McGlockton was back in
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